SteamVR Still a Slideshow With RTX 3000 Series GPUs?

[temps]

Just wondering if anyone knows if this issue has been solved yet by NVIDIA. Because I'm still having the problem with my RTX 3070.

Does NVIDIA even care about the fact their drivers are apparently terrible at running SteamVR?

The strange thing is that sometimes I put on my headset and everything works nicely. And other times it's a slideshow.

Who knows how it will work tomorrow morning?

[--ranXerox--]

it runs fine on my end. I had one issue with it though. grey screen with transparent pixel. wierd stuff. It was fixed on a reboot.

I'm thinking you could be having power issues. when power drawn from the PSU is lower than expected, the GPU will underclock. Make sure you are not using adapters. Make sure each rail from the power box is exactly the power the gpu needs.

[--ranXerox--]

For my rtx3090, I need 3x rails and adaptors made my graphics card hot which slowed graphics to a crawl or pc completely shut down on a previous 2x rail PSU.

[Bob Loblaw]

SteamVR runs great on my RTX 3060ti. There's tons of ways to mess up a rig with third party software or improper settings.

Originally posted by temps:

The strange thing is that sometimes I put on my headset and everything works nicely. And other times it's a slideshow.

That doesn't sound like a driver problem. Reboot and see if your problem goes away.

[Sexan]

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[temps]

Originally posted by Bob Loblaw:

SteamVR runs great on my RTX 3060ti. There's tons of ways to mess up a rig with third party software or improper settings.

It's a freshly built PC as of a few months ago. And it was doing this a few months ago too. Drivers have been checked/updated every month and a half or so.

[Bob Loblaw]

Previous confirmed causes of stutter in the forums:
1) Resolution set too high
2) GPU lighting apps like Asus Aura, Corsair iCUE, or Gygabyte RGB Fusion
3) GPU monitoring apps like Afterburner,
4) NVMe drive stealing bandwidth from the GPU's PCIE bus (https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/1815422173043032484/)
5) PCI-e 4.0 and USB conflict (also causes intermittent tracking loss) (change BIOS to use PCI-e 3.0 protocol)
6) Rift S + open OVR Advanced Settings (https://steamcommunity.com/app/250820/discussions/0/3112519935867753855/)
7) This huge thread on amd cards/drivers/chaperone/motion smoothing, etc, possible causes AMD ReLive for VR (Wireless), High Precision Event Timer, (https://steamcommunity.com/app/250820/discussions/0/2970650017901586073/)
8) minimize game desktop window (https://steamcommunity.com/app/250820/discussions/2/3058490685012602825/)

[--ranXerox--]

motherboards badly designed resources hogs up bandwith. I agree with bob on those could be an issue as well.

[temps]

Originally posted by --ranXerox--:

For my rtx3090, I need 3x rails and adaptors made my graphics card hot which slowed graphics to a crawl or pc completely shut down on a previous 2x rail PSU.

I don't think this is the problem because my flat games are smooth as silk on ultra settings.

Seems more likely NVIDIA just views VR as a small % of their PC users and doesn't devote the attention to making the drivers work well with VR.

Low framerates and stuttering are known driver problems for RTX 3000 series cards.

[Rage]

You'd be surprised, the RTX series made a lot of PSU manufacturers redesign their stuff to handle the power spikes.

[❀❀ V ❀❀]

There is in fact still a known issue with Nvidia cards and dropped frames every 3-4 seconds. If you aren't on a 3000 series and/or Windows 11 you can downgrade to 446.41 to fix it, everyone else is SOL until NVIDIA fixes it, which according to one of their engineers on their forums, is taking significantly longer to fix than they anticipated, and has thus far touched on nearly every single part of the driver.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/402768/valve-index-missing-dropped-frames-since-nvidia-d/


Some people were able to resolve it by disabling Overlays and Monitoring tools, but this doesn't seem to fix it for everyone, myself included on my 2070S, which is likely why the hotfix is still not out 3 months after his last post.

[--ranXerox--]

not only that, power consumption. I needed to upgrade my PSU to avoid such issues. my rtx3090 needed 3 dedicated rails of power and not use of a silly adapter.

Imagine an athlete going to perform at the olympics without food or water 3 days prior. That is real hunger. same with graphics cards.

you avoid heating issues, dropped framerate, system auto shutdown, etc and damage.

[dangerousbrii]

Im having issues with Steam Vr Games peforming poorly. Running Reverb G2 With i7 11700f, Rtx3080 16Gb 3200RAm. Steam VR Games Stutter Badly unless i lower Res Down Below 100%. VRMARK & 3DMARK Scores are all good so its got to be software issue. Headset works ok in cliffhouse.

[Fenris_Wolf]

Originally posted by dangerousbrii:

Im having issues with Steam Vr Games peforming poorly. Running Reverb G2 With i7 11700f, Rtx3080 16Gb 3200RAm. Steam VR Games Stutter Badly unless i lower Res Down Below 100%. VRMARK & 3DMARK Scores are all good so its got to be software issue. Headset works ok in cliffhouse.

Are you by any chance using an HP computer like the Omen?

[JasonB]

I have a hunch based on the "sometimes it works, sometimes it's a slideshow."

Start > Run > vrmonitor://safemode/enable

Starts SteamVR in safe mode. Let me know if that clears up this issue.

Also, do you use Windows 11 by chance? Because this is totally a Windows 11 thing. I'm running Windows 11 and VR is a complete disaster in it. I have this problem and many others.

[Glenn]

Just adding my pennies worth. Reverb G2, RTX3080Ti 3 rails running on a 750 watt PSU and everything runs just fine. Nope, I dont think it's a driver issue. Something else going on there, its got to be a software conflict.